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Fort Sumner was abandoned in 1869 and purchased by rancher and cattle baron Lucien Maxwell. Maxwell rebuilt one of the officers' quarters into a 20-room house. On July 14, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy the Kid in this house, now referred to as the Maxwell House.
Grave marker for Billy The Kid, also at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. In 1931, Charles W. Foor, an unofficial tour guide at Fort Sumner Cemetery, campaigned to raise funds for a permanent marker for the graves of Bonney, O'Folliard, and Bowdre. As a result of his efforts, a stone memorial marked with the names of the three men and their death dates ...
Old Fort Sumner Cemetery, Fort Sumner, New Mexico 34°24'14.0"N 104°11'34.1"W: ... Billy was later buried a few feet from Lucien Maxwell in Fort Sumner, New Mexico ...
Billy rode with Bowdre, O'Folliard, Dave Rudabaugh, and a few other friends, with whom he rustled cattle and committed other crimes. Eventually sheriff Pat Garrett and his posse tracked and killed O'Folliard, Bowdre, and, in July 1881, the "Kid". The three men were buried at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. [23]
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Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. [4] The population was 1,031 at the 2010 U.S. Census, [5] down from the figure of 1,249 recorded in 2000. Fort Sumner is the spring and fall home of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility.
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Nov. 13, 1988: Working to revive Billy Bob’s Texas honky-tonk in the Fort Worth Stockyards are, from left, Don Jury, Steven Murrin and Ken Brixey. Dec. 30, 1989: Garth Brooks performs at Billy ...